A01=John Burnett
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Author_John Burnett
Author_Proffessor John Burnett
autobiography
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childhood experiences in industrial Britain
Coal Fire
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Dead Beat
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family dynamics study
Fine Day
George III
girls
historical education systems
Independent Schools
Iron Gates
Large Families
Liverpool Victoria Legal Friendly Society
Lytham St Annes
Marianne Farningham
Midday
Nether Hall
nineteenth-century Britain
Norton Manor
Off Licences
Penny Bank
Primitive Methodist Chapel
privy
Privy Midden
Scare Crows
school
Shanks Pony
Sir Henry Wood
social history research
Sponges
streets
sunday
unpublished
urbanisation effects
Village Lanes
Wild Cherry Trees
working-class childhood
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138172784
- Weight: 880g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 29 Jul 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In this companion volume to Useful Toil, John Burnett has drawn extensively on over eight hundred previously unpublished manuscripts. The result is a unique record of childhood that reveals in intimate detail the trials and hard-won triumphs of nineteenth-century working-class life. Besides affording rare insights into the developing child's world of dreams, hopes and fears, they reflect a crucial period in the evolution of a family tradition; a time when, to counteract the brutalizing pressures of urbanization and industrialization, ordinary people turned to each other for support.
Children have seldom had a voice in history: these writers and their experiences take their place as part of the essential fabric of our past.
